The Middle Passage
West African slaves could escape their bondage.
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The term for the transportation of slaves to the Americas from the west coast of Africa is the "Transatlantic Slave Trade." This brutal trade involved millions of Africans being forcibly transported across the Atlantic Ocean to work primarily in plantations and mines in the Americas from the 16th to the 19th centuries. It was a significant and devastating part of the broader system of slavery that had profound effects on both African and American societies.
From slave traders in central Africa.
Slaves from West Africa were generally sold in African and European countries, while slaves from East Africa were generally sold in Persia and Mesopotamia.
From Europe, they brought textiles, run and manufactured good to Africa. From Africa, they bought slaves or simply took people and made them slaves, and brought them to the Americas. From the Americas, the Europeans brought back the sugar, tobacco and cotton.
West African slaves could escape their bondage.
West African slaves could escape their bondage.
The word was used by the Portuguese to distinguish Creole slaves - that is, slaves who were born in South America as children of slaves - from slaves who were imported from Africa and who were called "African" slaves.
yes the african slaves were brought to the americas
The Spanish obtained African slaves through the transatlantic slave trade, which involved capturing and trading Africans from various regions of Africa to the Americas. This practice was driven by the demand for labor in the Spanish colonies, particularly for work on plantations and in mines.
Slaves would come from small villages that they lived in. African slaves came from various countries in Africa and were sold by other Africans to Europeans to be shipped to the Americas.
What caused African slaves to be brought to the Americas was the demand for cheap labor. They replaced indentured servants.
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The use of African slaves was fundamental to growing colonial cash crops, which were exported to Europe. European goods, in turn, were used to purchase African slaves, which were then brought on the sea lane west from Africa to the Americas, the so called middle passage.
Primarily, Spain was colonizing (such as Morocco and the Equatorial Guinea), but it was also involved in the transportation of African slaves to the Americas.
In America, slaves were imported from Africa, hence why people of color are called African Americans today.